Configuration management Is key to successful cloud implementation

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Overview

Visibility into the cloud environment is important because you need to make faster and more automated configuration management decisions.
This paper discusses:
- An overview of cloud computing, the evolution of cloud models, and the driving factors behind cloud adoption
- The challenges of cloud computing
- The definition of the Configuration Management System (CMS...

Visibility into the cloud environment is important because you need to make faster and more automated configuration management decisions.
This paper discusses:
- An overview of cloud computing, the evolution of cloud models, and the driving factors behind cloud adoption
- The challenges of cloud computing
- The definition of the Configuration Management System (CMS) and how CMS and the cloud are related
- Why cloud deployments depend on a CMS to be successful
- How discovery and dependency mapping provide end-to-end visibility into the cloud